How to Delete an Account from Google Analytics

Have you had a blog which is no longer live but the account is still on Google Analytics? Do you want to clean up your GA account? If so, read on and learn how to do it.

Google Analytics is a free website stats program which is recommended for every blogger and website owner. It gives you great details about where your traffic is coming from and how users are interacting your website/blog.

For a long time I have created numerous blogs apart from ShoutMeLoud to try new things online, and over that time many of them have been deleted as they didn’t work out the way I had anticipated. Even though the blogs are deleted, their accounts are still in my Google Analytics which simply adds unnecessary junk to the account.

Today when I logged into my Google Analytics account, I noticed many of these domains. I considered getting rid of them, and realized that the process is easy, but not well documented online in a manner that is easy to follow.

This tutorial will help you to get rid of all Analytics accounts which are not in use any longer. Here is a the uncleaned view of my Gooogle Analytics account:

My goal here is to get rid of all of the properties under any account which I am no longer using. Here is the step-by-step guide to getting it done.

How to delete unused Google Analytics properties:

You can follow this guide to delete a Google Analytics account or a property under any account. Remember, you can have any number of accounts under your Google Analytics, and every account can have any number of properties.

To get started with this, login to your Google Analytics account and click on Admin at the top:

Referring to the above image:

To access the Admin panel in Google Analytics

To navigate between different accounts

To navigate between different properties under your accounts

If you notice at the bottom of #2, you see an option called “Trash Can”. You can use this to restore any deleted Google Analytics properties.

In my case, the goal is to get rid of a few properties (domains) which are under an account called ShoutDreams blog network.

Click on Property Settings under the property you want to delete.

Note: Property Settings is an important part of your web analytics, as you can enable demographics and interest features as well as a few other important settings.

At the top right you will see the option to delete an account (click on “move to trash can”), and after a confirmation you will be able to delete your account.

When you delete an account or property from Google Analytics, you will be able to restore it within 35 days from the date of the deletion. This is useful for any user who has accidentally deleted his account.

Pretty easy, isn’t it?

This trick is useful for any webmaster like myself who may be using Google Analytics to manage his web analytics. If you haven’t integrated Google Analytics into your blog yet, I suggest that you follow these guides and do so right away. In the long run, it will benefit you greatly. I have also listed a few Google Analytics tutorials which will help any beginner or intermediate user to get more accomplished with Google Analytics.

I want to delete an account (website) from my google analytics account but I was given Edit access by my client.
What I want is to just remove it from my account but I want the original analytics data to be there in my client’s account. In simple words, I just do not want to see this account any more in my panel. But the website data should be there in my client’s account.
Please guide.

Hi Harsh,
Thanks for this guide. I was not thinking to remove my old account from the analytics because I do not think like it creates any issue for other active blogs. However, by reading this post I removed one old account.

I am a student and I can’t invest on getting custom domain and hosting. So for free blog I think blogger is good because it provides custom template feature and many 3rd party sites are offering premium looking templates for free and also they work nicely. In WordPress there’s no such feature.

Invested WordPress is best no doubt. But for students like me what do u think is best to start up with.

Also let me know can I export blogspot to wordpress.org in future to enjoy wp benefits.

Once you make your first dollar & hopeful to make more, you should move your blog to self hosted WordPress right away. yes, you can find many guides online which shows you how to migrate BlogSpot blog to WordPress.

From now on, kindly post relevant comment on a topic. You can always go to http://ask.shoutmeloud.com for asking any blogging related queries.

I have 2 Google Analytics Account for two of my blogs (one for each) which is now not in use as well as the blog is not there. But I kept it for a reason to see that after deletion of blog, how traffic is coming i.e. when blog is not in use. I was surprised that the flow of visitors was sill there for a month. Till now I am unaware of the reason.

yeah it will be a bit slow because the page size of this website is like 1.2 mb so everytime you are using this you will have to download 1.2 mb for most of the page and it is very difficult to make a mobile version for the website which starts m.shoutmeloud.com (mobile version of this website )